The manufacturer claims its factory in the Jewish settlement of Mishor Adumim in the occupied West Bank, is a "model of integration" employing 500 Palestinians, 450 Arab Israelis and 350 Israeli Jews on the same salaries and with the same social security benefits. Palestinian employees blog "receive salaries four or five times that of the average wage in the territories controlled by Palestinian authorities", it has said. But the factory has been the focus of calls by Palestinian activists for a worldwide boycott of the firm. The row hit the headlines in January when Johansson quit as an ambassador for charity Oxfam following a dispute over her ad campaign for SodaStream. In one http://michikoonlineplace.wallinside.com of the televised adverts, Johansson told audiences that they http://jaestation.wordpress.com could drink SodaStream with a clear environmental conscience since the brand's plastic bottles are reused when making carbonated drinks at home. The actress, who was at the time an ambassador for British charity Oxfam, came in for fierce criticism from the international BDS ("Boycott, divestment, sanctions") campaign that pushes for a ban on Israeli products for "profiting from occupation". A spokesman for Johansson said the star had parted company with Oxfam due to a "fundamental difference of opinion" over the boycott. She still appears on the SodaStream website. <br>Source: http://news.yahoo.com/sodastream-close-controversial-west-bank-plant-195132450.html